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Input LeapBased on our record, Input Leap seems to be a lot more popular than x2vnc (win2vnc). While we know about 13 links to Input Leap, we've tracked only 1 mention of x2vnc (win2vnc). We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
x2x worked fine for input devices. Later, things like x2vnc made the idea more cross-platform (X on the local nix box, VNC on some other platform), but only with two machines. After that, Synergy became a thing, and supported many* machines, but then they eventually went to a model that tended to require payment. Later, Barrier forked from Senergy, and it allows much of the same functionality. It's still... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
There is an actively developed fork https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap, however that fork is still undergoing heavy development and recommends sticking with Barrier until they're able to release v3.0.0 which they expect rather soon. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
Barrier is basically a dead project now. The active members of the project forked it and are going to release when ready but https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap Keep an eye on that for anything new. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
Prior to Synergy going to closed source, it was forked into Barrier[0], which then was forked into input-leap[1]. Both open source. [0] https://github.com/debauchee/barrier. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
I wonder if I would be better off just buying a LG monitor without the Smart KVM, and instead using Barrier (or, Input Leap, which seems to be maintained actively compared to Barrier https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap). Source: 10 months ago
I was a student Unix systems administrator back then. We had ultrasparc workstations, with a SunPCi card. I believe a number of us hooked up a monitor to the VGA connector on it, and used x2vnc to have a continuous virtual screen. https://fredrik.hubbe.net/x2vnc.html. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
Barrier - Barrier is a cross-platform software for sharing your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers...
Synergy - Cross-platform software for sharing your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers
Multiplicity - Multiplicity enables a user to control multiple computers with one keyboard and mouse.
ShareMouse - With its easy setup and high level of versatility, ShareMouse is a great tool if you're looking to use a single mouse and keyboard across multiple computers.
Input Director - Control multiple windows systems with one keyboard/mouse. Share a keyboard and mouse across multiple windows system.
GiMeSpace KVMShare Pro - GiMeSpace KVMShare Pro is one of the very few real KVM software sollutions that not only shares mouse and keyboard but really allows you to share video in the form of windows on the screen of connected computers while using minimal bandwidth.